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/ 12 February 2007
China is pursuing a mutually beneficial relationship with Africa, in contrast to the West’s colonial exploitation of the continent, state-run press said on Monday following President Hu Jintao’s eight-nation tour. The 12-day visit cemented ties that were favourable to both sides, the official China Daily newspaper said.
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/ 12 February 2007
Oscar-winning director Bille August has brought the memoirs of one of Nelson Mandela’s jailers to the screen, with Dennis Haysbert playing the famous prisoner — a part that he said regularly left him in tears. Goodbye Bafana premiered on Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival, where it is competing for the Golden Bear award.
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/ 12 February 2007
The Department of Home Affairs has ordered national soccer coach Carlos Parreira and his assistant to stop working until they have sorted out their working permits. Spokesperson Mansthele Tau said the South African Football Association had submitted late work-permit applications on behalf of the two men.
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/ 12 February 2007
A laboratory dedicated to extra-sensory perception at Princeton University in New Jersey is to close after nearly 30 years of research. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory was set up in 1979 to investigate whether human consciousness could interfere with sensitive computers and machinery.
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/ 12 February 2007
An alliance of all major music publishers and 23 cellphone operators said on Monday they would launch a music service to 690-million phone subscribers. The first operators to provide it will be Telenor in Norway and Vodafone partner network Vodacom in South Africa.
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/ 12 February 2007
The Bush administration stepped up pressure on Iran on Sunday by producing what it claimed was intelligence that Tehran was behind roadside bombs used by insurgents against United States forces in Iraq. It also said the decision to send the arms had been made at ”the highest levels”.
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/ 12 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki and senior leaders of the FirstRand group will meet soon to discuss the controversial First National Bank (FNB) campaign against crime, Mbeki said in an interview on SAfm on Sunday. The bank cancelled its multimillion-rand anti-crime campaign on February 2 after meeting with government officials.
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/ 12 February 2007
From Maseru to Gabon, China’s footprint in our continent is getting larger. Jean Jacques Cornish quizzed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad on China’s growing presence and power in Africa as China’s President Hu Jintao completed his fifth continental tour this week.
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/ 12 February 2007
Just before Christmas 2006, the Independent reported that "global warming had claimed its first victim": Lohachara island in India was swallowed by the rising sea. On February 2, the International Panel on Climate Change, a gathering of scientists from around the world, published its latest report on the overwhelming evidence for human-induced climate change and the dire prospects for life on Earth.
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/ 12 February 2007
In a few weeks previous employees of Old Mutual may learn the fate of their portion of the pension fund surplus. This will determine whether qualifying former members of the Old Mutual company pension fund will receive a joint payout of R82-million or just R2-million.